Thursday, March 13, 2008

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My apologies for being absent from this blog for the past few weeks. Work details and life over at Blake's Think Tank have kept me busy. That's and it's been relatively calm on the movie front. I haven't been to a movie in three weeks, which feels weird. I debated, for a second, going to see "10,000 B.C." I didn't. I've heard good things about "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day," with Frances McDormand and Amy Adams. But I haven't been to see it.

Through 10 weeks of 2008 I've seen three new releases: "Cloverfield," "27 Dresses" and "Vantage Point." That's pitiful, I know. But I am more encouraged by two films opening this weekend: Michael Haneke's "Funny Games" starring Naomi Watts, Michael Pitt and Tim Roth, and "City of Men" directed by Paolo Morelli and produced by Fernando Meirelles ("City of God" "The Constant Gardener"). Both open at Matt Smith's Market Street Cinema.

More by BSR

"Sunshine Cleaning," "Wendy and Lucy." And this is fantastic.

Thanks to Philip Martin for a shout-out in his Friday MovieStyle column. I haven't posted my Netflix queue in a while, so here it is.Frozen River; Miracle at St. Anna; Hellboy II: The Golden Army; Happy-Go-Lucky; and Cadillac Records - - all 2008 releases that I missed.

A rediscovered violin concerto brings an oft-forgotten composer into the limelight.

My colleagues John Ray and Jesse Bacon and I estimate, in the first analysis of its kind for the 2018 election season, that the president's waning popularity isn't limited to coastal cities and states. The erosion of his electoral coalition has spread to The Natural State, extending far beyond the college towns and urban centers that voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. From El Dorado to Sherwood, Fayetteville to Hot Springs, the president's approval rating is waning.

Despite fierce protests from disabled people, the U.S. House voted today, mostly on party lines, to make it harder to sue businesses for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. Of course Arkansas congressmen were on the wrong side.